This book will show you various methods you can use to break into computer systems.
In some ways this is harder to do than it used to be. Nowadays people are more strict, more cautious about security. That's how it seems, anyway. But there are plenty of holes still left in any system's armor. System managers can tighten up computer security as much as they want but there will always be ways to get around their efforts. Remember the first rule of hacking: Whatever a . human mind can achieve, another can also achieve. Whatever one mind can hide, another can discover. People tend to think and act alike, and it is this sameness of thought that you, the hacker, will exploit. What is a hacker? I'm going to give a definition now, and if you don't fit the description I give, you can just close this book and throw it away: A hacker is a person with an intense love of something, be it computers, writing, nature or sports. A hacker is a person who, because he or she has this love, also has a deep curiosity about the subject in question. If a hacker loves computers, then he or she is curious about every aspect of computers. That curiosity extends also to the ways other people use their computers. Hackers have respect for their subject. For a computer hacker that means he respects the ability of computers to put him in contact with a universe of information and other people, and it means he respects those other people and does not intentionally use this knowl-edge of computers to be mischievous or destruc-tive. That sort of thing is for social-outcast junior high school kids. The serious computer hacker simply wants to know everything there is about the world, and the world of computers. The True Computer Hacker is a computer enthusiast and more importantly, a Universe enthusiast. You should already be enthused. Are you ready to learn?
